Vocabulary

• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• for the sake of: For the purpose of; in the interest of.
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• speed up: To move more quickly
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• ancient: Very old; having lived a very long time ago
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• curious: Wanting to know more about something
• foremost: Being the best or most important
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• definition: Explanation of word's meaning, as in dictionaries
• tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
• essence: Most important part or quality of something
• sake: Japanese rice wine
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
• curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
• evolution: Theory that living things change over time
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• civilization: A highly developed society
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• obsess: To talk or think about someone, something too much
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• enzyme: A protein made by cells
• important: Having power or authority
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• great: Very good; better than before
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• person: Man, woman or child
• microbe: Very small, microscopic, living thing
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• inhospitable: Being difficult to live in due to conditions
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• systemic: Affecting the entire body, system